#1 import from CSV data

[Günter Milde]

I installed tomotko on the N810 as I found this the flashcard app that matches best my needs and expectations
(nice look, quick and easy learning with the quiz).
However, creating a glossary from scratch is rather cumbersome, especially on the tablet, with the second language in a different alphabet (in my case Russian).

This is why I hope to find an importer or converter that can create a tomotko glossary out of structured data, like e.g.

* a tab-separated file with <source>\t<target>\t<comment>, or
* the YAML format used by e.g. WordByWord (http://www.peterbouda.de/downloads/wordbyword)

[Frederic Bergeron]

You will find a MioFlash2toMOTko data converter on the home page under the Data Converters link. It's not the perfect solution but it could be useful if you want to import your list of words quickly. It doesn't consume CSV files but the format is quite similar. You can get an overview of the file format here:

http://www.oesf.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=16606&view=findpost&p=161556

Basically, the format is:

target/targetPronunciation/source/comment

The script assumes that you're an English-speaker learning Japanese. So you will have to unzip the content of the file, edit the xml files within and replace the "jp" and "en" language codes to something that suits your needs, probably "ru" and ("en" or "de"). Once all the xml files have been adjusted, zip the files again and import it into toMOTko.

[Günter Milde]

Thanks for the hint.
Would it be possible to make the conversion script available for download and offline use?
This would be fare more comfortable for repeated use. I could also try to make it configurable.

Thanks, Günter

[Frederic Bergeron]

You can find the code of the Ruby script here:

http://tomotko.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/tomotko/www/trunk/cgi-bin/convertMioFlash2ToMOTko.rb?revision=766&view=markup

Please note that most of the code can removed if you just include the commented require statement.

[Frederic Bergeron]

As I don't intend to implement this feature in toMOTko itself for the coming tuture, I close this feature request.

The right thing to do IMHO is rather to improve my online conversion script. The idea is that I don't want the application to become too fat because it's running on devices with limited memory and power.